Is Ante Gotovina under skirts of franciscans in Krapanj?

Now even Jasna Babic in Slobodna Dalmacija started with critics on Catholic Church because of hiding Gotovina, and till recently, writing for Vecerni list, she was pointing at domestic betrayers in intelligence underground, who thought that Gotovina should tell his story in Haag, and that domestic secret services, police not even the church, shouldn’t help in his escape.

I’m surprised that Babic changed her mind when it is about Gotovina and his helpers, because she way loyal to that team till now. Among Gotovina’s logistics, her the greatest favourite, Nikola Kristo, who came into Cedo Prodanovic’s office offering that Cermak’s lawyer and friend of President Mesic, mediate at ICTY about conditions that Gotovina was offering to talk to Haag’s investigators. Nikola Kristo, together with Ante Gotovina, was visitig vicar Zlatko Sudac in Betanija, after what the stigmatic and carismatic priest, concluded that runaway general was a great and kind man and that he shouldn’t surrender to ICTY.

As I can remember, only Mladen Plese, present chief editor of Slobodna Dalmacija, and present chief of Jasna Babic, even in 2002., while they were working together in Nacional, critisized Gotovina’s escape, and in context of helper, was mentioning parts of Catholic church. That Plese’s text in 2002. confirmed the indications that I was getting, from the field Gotovina was moving on, and from different foreign journalists, who were getting confirmations from their governments.

Dear readers of 45 lines, if your memory is correct, President Mesic spoke in 2002. to Pope Ivan Pavao 2, with request that Principal master of Catholic Church calm down those right-sided bishops , who were supporting Gotovina.

And then Ante Gotovina through Hrvoje Petrac and Ivo Pukanic, with assisstance of Zeljko Bagic and Franjo Turek, offered to President Mesic a deal which he couldn’t refuse.

As Carla Del Ponte doesn’t fall on charm of Kristijan Horvat (Ante Gotovina), and not even on winking of rather older charmin man, Stjepan Mesic, our President got himself in troubles head over heels, and now swimming out of that dirt, at the times, say something stupid to fence himself from Gotovina and Petrac.

Policemen of Ranko Ostojic from Police station of Sibenik-Knin, even in 2002. were supervising island Visovac, because there were informations that friars on that island were guarding Gotovina, that was, made possible for him to move through Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, not stopped by the police, hiding under their dresses. Visovac is under interference of Split’s franciscan’s province.

Nevertheless, friar’s monestery on island Krapanj, opposite of Brodarica, is under interference of Zadar’s province of Sveti Jeronim and it is not surprising that Zadar’s franciscans feel called by name the most in the last interview with Carla Del Ponte.

From Krapanj, for Ante Gotovina it was not difficult to sail to Kaprije, where he had holidays in 2003., as it was written. Because of liking that information in public, Franjo Turek, at that time chief of POA, replaced by the end of 2003 the chief of his spy branch � Davor Matesic.

All that quotations about shelters on Hvar, Vis or again at fra Petar Krasic in Masna Luka, are only fruit of cooking of present chief of POA, Tomislav Karamarko, so the binoculars for Gotovina would turn on other side � where he is not.

Also the trousers found in Italy and many other examples about which I on 45 lines wrote in details, because Karamarko didn’t let me to write about that in Vjesnik.

According to one explanation, Davor Matesic is replaced because he didn’t collect evidences for defense of runaway retired general Ante Gotovina, and according to another, because he didn’t prevent liking of information about last summer Gotovina’s staying on Kaprije island, near Sibenik/Council for civilian supervision of secret services is the only one authorised to investigate that case

ZAGREB, 9th November � Franjo Turek, chief of Counterintelligence service (POA), replaced Davor Matesic, the chief of Sibenik’s branch of POA, several days after dissolution of Croatian Parliament. By that, intelligence analysts say, he finished the process of cleaning in POA, using Parliamentry vacuum, till foundation of another convocation of Parliament and forming Parliamentary Committee for internal politics and national security, under which authorisation are secret services.

Unofficially, exactly from circles of former members that Parlamentary Committee, can be heared complaints on Turek’s move, which is evaluated as political, because Matesic was considered as a man of Minister of police, Sime Lucin. �While POA was under authorisation of Ministry of police (MUP), Sime Lucin didn’t let Turek to touch Matesic. It is well known that Sime Lucin and Ivan Ninic, the member of Parliamentary Committee for national security, was against confirming Turek for chief of POA, and for a while that was also done by Prime Minister, Ivica Racan. Turek has used Parliamentary vacuum and by replacement of Matesic touched those who were against him�, explains to Vjesnik a source close to former Parliamentary Committee for internal politics and national security.

Formally, Matesic’s replacement was explained by bad working results and bad human relations in Sibenik’s branch of POA. Unofficially was added that it was taken against Matesic weak engagement in collecting evidences which could help in defense of runaway retired general Ante Gotovina in ICTY, in operation led by special advisor for national security of President of Croatia, Zeljko Bagic, main state attorney, Mladen Bajic and chief of POA, Franjo Turek.

The Vjesnik’s source added that Matesic’s replacement could have something with Gotovina case, but in connection of statement of Carla Del Ponte in Luxembourgh that runaway general was on vacation last summer on one yacht in Mediterranean. As Vjesnik wrote, some sources claimed that the yacht with Gotovina was anchored near Sibenik’s island Kaprije. The source close to former Parliamentary Committee emphasizes that Turek, among other things, took against Matesic because that information appeared in public.
When once in Slobodna Dalmacija was published document of SZUP (former name of POA, auth. remark) that till recently President of Parliamentary Committee for national security, HSS man, Ante Markov, was reserve worker of that service, Franjo Turek personally accused Matesic for being responsible because that document appeared in public.

�But, then Turek didn’t have prooves for that accusation, and Matesic was under Lucin’s protection, so no replacement could be done, which recentla happened�, explains Vjesnik’s source. During Matesic was chief of Sibenik’s POA, he was intimidated twice by shooting on the building he lived in.
As Vjesnik founds out, on Matesic certain pressures was made by Milan Malenica, while he was chief of VOA (Military-intelligence agency). Malenica’s chief, Gordan Cacic, gave him a promotion and now he is employee of management of that agency in Zagreb.

President of Council fo civilian supervision of secret services, prof.dr. Vlatko Cvrtila, announced that the body, which in Parliamentary vacuum is only authorised for control of secret services, would visit all secret services, to get familiar with their work and check whether they work by law.
Is in case of replacement of Davor Matesic was any illegal moves of Franjo Turek, it will be known after finishing work of inspection of Council for civilian supervision of secret services.

Zeljko Peratovic

Employee: Zeljko Peratovic from Zagreb, III Pile 25

DEMAND FOR PROTECTION OF RIGHTS IN LABOUR RELATION

Dear Sirs,

On the day 16th of August 2005. I received the Resolution of Management of Irregular dismissal of working contract. I suggest that you put out of order this Resolution of Management from 4th August, because most of the contents in Explanation of it is not according to the facts.

Conected with Your opening remark that I was in 2002. warned from former Management that I didn’t fulfill obligations in accordance with Regulations of work, I must remind You that I in Declaration to Employment council from 28th July, and in declaration to You from 3th August, said that in the very misunderstanding with editorial office at that time, the best informations could be heard from at that time chief editor of Vjesnik, Kresimir Fijacko, and his deputy, Miroslav Lezaja.
Colleague Lezaja, on the news that Management wants to give me dismissal, among others, guiding by Warning from 2002., said that he is personally ready testify that was misunderstanding, after my cooperation with editorial office got better on mutual benefit.

Anyway, at that time third man of editorial office, executive editor, Zlatko Herljevic, suggested several of my texts from Vjesnik in 2003., about Gotovina affair, for award Marija Juric Zagorka, in subcategory for investigative journalism.
Some of the texts that I have published in 2002. in Vjesnik, were rewarded from Reporters without borders of Austria, by award Press Freedom Award 2003.
So I suggest once more to, from former editorial stuff, try to find out directly what kind of worker I was.

It is true that in Feral Tribune on 22 July 2005. was published big interview with Pavle Gazi, which I signed, and that I didn’t have written approval for that.
Also, I must remind, that in my declarations to Empolyment council from 28 July and to You, as a President of the board since 3 August, I have pointed out all circumstances how it came to that I have behaved contrary to Working contract.
I consider that in those declarations, wishing to clear misunderstandings, cleared enough circumstances because of which I made mistakes, and the copies of the same I send to you again.

From your Explanation I don’t see that you during making decision about my Irregular dismissal, consulted my declarations at all, and that you even give untruth states that I have denied to defense myself.

The truth is that I couldn’t come on conversation with Mr Ivica Kriletic in Juridicial service on 1 August, because I was on sick leave, what he knew personally, because he, from hands of my brother, Mladen Peratovic, got doctor’s note of excuse. Also, at that time, my doctor recomended me avoiding contacts with stress factors, and my medical condition was in great part result of mobbing which I have experienced in editorial office, so my brother instead of me gave the note of excuse.

My defense I gave to Employment council (Working council) in written form on 28 July, my witness for that was colleague Gordana Tintor from the council. She asked from me, in front of council, to give special declaration also to You, what I have done in written form on 3 August and have sent by fax.

So, it is not truth the state in Explanation that I have defaulted on call to give my defense, what except colleague Tintor, can also confirm other witnesses.
Considering that this kind of Irregular dismissal can be interpreted as finish of process of mobbing, which was done towards me in time of this Management and former chief editor, Andrea Latinovic, latest since September 2004. till now, I suggest to put this resolution out of order.

The editor Marijana Matkovic, whom on 22 July I informed about serious death threats, which I reported to police the same day, told me that Management and editorial office got for perusal my Suggestion of settlement to State attorney’s office of Croatia, connected with POA case. She didn’t pay attention on the fact that I got death threats, but she pointed out that in Management and editorial office were very furious with me when they saw that I have in Suggestion of settlement described mobbing in Vjesnik, and that after that interview in Feral I would get Irregular dismissal for sure.

This is another proof which would go in favour of thesis that my dismissal in Vjesnik was preparing earlier than I made a mistake with interview in Feral.
Moreover, I don’t have the information whether Management was legaly informed about the contents of my Suggestion of settlement and what was said about the contents which were related to Vjesnik.

Because of all this mentioned, I suggest to the Management to examine once more the resolution about Irregular dismissal and to put it out of order.

In Zagreb, 29th August 2005.

employee

Zeljko Peratovic

Enclosures:
1. Declaration to President of the Board from 3th August
2. Declaration to Employment council of Vjesnik P Ltd. from 28th July
3. Vjesnik’s printout of working version of text about murder of Stjepan Djurekovic from 11th July, which was ordered, but without explanation, not published

President of the board:
FRANJO MALETIC
Telephone: 61 61 700
Fax: 36 41 606

Dear Sir,

I, Zeljko Peratovic, beneath signed journalist of column Croatia in daily newspapers Vjesnik, on recommendation of Employment council of Vjesnik Ltd., submit to you declaration about your Suggestion from 25 July 2005. to give me Irregular dismissal of working contract because of heavy violation of working duty, and which on 28 July 2005. I submited to Employment council on its demand.

On that date, when I have sent an official letter to the Council, I was told that Management would be informed about that.
However, the next day, on 29 July 2005. I got a phone call from Mr Kriletic from Vjesnik’s management office to come and collect my dismissal letter. I told him that I couldn’t because I was in surgery, because of previous mobbing in editorial office, death threats from Switzerland which I reported to police, and about what Novi list was writing, death of my mother, and notice that I would be dismissed, I got sick.

Mr Kriletic told me to come to see him on 1st August of this year in 9:00. I answered that I would do that if I could.
On specialist check up on 30 July 2005. on xxx xxx, in xxx xxx, my status of sick leave from 29 July of this year opened in surgery of dr. xxx xxx, and strictly confirmed in diagnosis to cure myself at home with family and that I must keep away from all stress situations. Among others, stress situations are above described my position in Vjesnik’s office. All this you can check by the mentioned doctors, that is institutions, and medical file I can’t submit to you, because it is considered as medical secret.

Considering that Employment council didn’t find necessary to inform you about mentioned declaration, I will do that personally, no matter further steps of Management, connected with announcement that I will get Irregular dismissal of working contract.

Best regards,

Journalist

Zeljko Peratovic

In Zagreb, 3 August 2005

I, beneath signed journalist of internal politics editorial office of Vjesnik, Zeljko Peratovic, in this way, want to explain my point of view of circumstances which Management gives as a reason to give me Irregular dismissal of working contract.

The interview with Pavle Gazi, socialistic Minister of police in Socialistic Republic of Croatia (1982./1983.) published in weekly magazine Feral Tribune nr. 1035, under title Djurekovic is killed outside of protocol, I consider as my work of authorship (that’s why it is not under pseudonym). Since 1983. till today Mr Gazi gave only two interviews, both to me. One for Fokus in 2000., and another could be published in Vjesnik, if editorial office wanted that.

I made the interview on my own expense, travelling on non-working day, by friend’s car in Koprivnica, where Mr Gazi lives, taking photos with my own camera, using my own film, and paying for the photographs. At the same time, the interview is written and sent to editorial office of Feral out of working hours in Vjesnik.

By this I want to say that I don’t think that I, by any material means, damaged Vjesnik by publishing Gazi’s interview in magazine Feral Tribune.

I addmit that I have violated the term of working contract, which says that it is allowed to the journalists of Vjesnik to cooperate with other medias exclusively with consent of employer, that is editorial office.

Considering the importance of theme which Mr Gazi was talking about, and the fact that I have previously talked with him about murder of Stjepan Djurekovic for Vjesnik (enclosure 1.) by previous agreement with chief editor, Andrea Latinovic, editor Zoran Vodopija, editor Nada Dmitrovic and assisstant of director for editorial office, dr. Goran Popovic, and as that arranged conversation for Vjesnik wasn’t done, and I got no explanation from mentioned people, and asked for it from dr. Popovic and editor Dmitrovic, leading the principle of freedom of reporting, and also law regulations which forbid censorship, extended conversation from Vjesnik, made on my expense, I published in Feral Tribune.

He promised me that he would talk with chief editor Andrea Latinovic, connected with this problem, and that I would be informed about everything on time.

By the way, I told him about series of problems that I had in communication with at that days chief editor, starting with September 2005, when she accused me publicly that on my text were coming complaints and to the director Franjo Maletic. About these complaints to dr. Popovic you can find out more in one part of my Suggestion to State attorney’s office of Croatia for peaceful settlement of dispute, connected with result of violation of human rights, which I experienced from Counterintelligence agency, and what was officialy recognised byCouncil for internal politics and national security of Croatian Parliament (enclosure 2.).

I informed dr. Popovic that I, because of mobbing which I was exposed to by at that time chief editor Andrea Latinovic, was forced to be two months on sick leave, that was, psychiatric medical treatment, in May and June of this year.
It was medicaly proved, and that can confirm also my doctor, that journalist profession is specific, and that censorship and mobbing, that is, impossibility of writing and publishing, can cause serious mental damages.

Conected with complaint that I in 2002. also got warning about possible Irregular dismissal of working contract from at that time director Rikard Pompe, I ask from Employment council to ask fo opinion about that at that time chief editor Kresimir Fijacko, his deputy Miroslav Lezaja, and executive editor Zlatko Herljevic, who in 2003 propose me in name of Vjesnik’s branch in Croatian journalist association for its award for investigative journalism. Reporters without borders of Austria awarded me with international award for investigative journalism Press Freedom � Signal f�r Europa 2003, partly thanks to texts published exactly in Vjesnik.

Best regards,

Zeljko Peratovic

Franjo Maletic

Redakcija “Vjesnik”

HR-10000 Z a g r e b

Sehr geehrter Herr Direktor Maletic!

Wie wir erfahren haben, ist unser Kollege und Preistr�ger Zeljko Peratovic aus der Redaktion des “Vjesnik” entlassen worden. Peratovic ist �ber die Grenzen Kroatiens und besonders in �sterreich bekannt geworden, weil er unerschrocken �ber Kriegsverbrechen berichtet hat. Seine regelm��ige Berichterstattung �ber die Vorg�nge in Gospic hat ihm in Wien den Internationalen Journalistenpreis �Press Freedom Award 2003� der Organisation �Reporter ohne Grenzen �sterreich� (Sektion von Reporters sans fronti�res Paris) beschert.

Uns war schon damals bekannt, dass Herr Peratovic Drohungen und Bel�stigungen durch Extremisten ausgesetzt war. Daran hat sich auch in der Zwischenzeit nichts ge�ndert. Herr Peratovic hat sich nach eigenem Bekunden sogar gen�tigt gesehen, seine Frau und seine kleine Tochter aus Sicherheitsgr�nden in die Schweiz zu schicken.

Wir bitten Sie h�flich, uns die Gr�nde f�r die Entlassung von Zeljko Peratovic mitzuteilen und hoffen nat�rlich, dass Sie nichts mit den Widerst�nden gegen seine unerschrockene Berichterstattung zu tun haben. Dar�ber hinaus w�rden wir uns freuen, wenn Sie im Sinne professioneller Solidarit�t Herrn Peratovic den Schutz und die Unterst�tzung angedeihen lassen w�rden, auf die wir alle so angewiesen sind.

Mit kollegialen Gr��en

Dr. Rubina M�hring

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Anlage: Laudatio Preisverleihung Press Freedom Award 2003

Exactly on 10.07.2004. in Vjesnik, under title: NOBODY WANTS TO BE CONNECTED WITH HRVOJE PETRAC, I published:

By the latest unofficial informations, Hrvoje Petrac is hiding in Greece for kidnaping general Vladimir Zagorac’s son, where recently, totaly unofficialy was one person from the top of OA.

That person was Sasa Perkovic, at that time, assisstant of chief of POA, Damir Loncaric, and today he is advisor of President Stjepan Mesic for national security, else son of Josip Perkovic, the most powerful Croatian spy, for whom Bozo Vukusic says that he is under German investigation about murder of Stjepan Djurekovic.

Sasa Perkovic, while he was in Greece, had a little car accident, his official car war damaged, what caused little problems with police, because Perkovic junior was there unofficialy, that means, he was not registrated with domestic authorities, so contrariwise to international diplomatic-intelligence regulations. And OA at that time didn’t have in Greece no accreditted intelligence attache in embassy in Athens.

Considering that Sasa Perkovic, during first Petrac’s escape to police in 2001., together with Ranko Ostojic, former chief of police, visited Hrvoje near Villach, after what the controverse tycoon appeared in Zagreb and gave statement to the police in Heinzlova Street that he had nothing with murder of Vjeko Slisko, it was not difficult to conclude that assisstant of chief of OA stayed in Greece to conntact with Petrac.

Conntacts of Ranko Ostojic and Sasa Perkovic during first escape with Petrac, later a few months ago, described Ivo Pukanic, as it could be considered as Petrac’s warning.

Through Pukanic also was warned chief of POA, Tomislav Karamarko by information in which was claimed that Karamarko, at the beginning of 90-ties, by intervention of Damir Loncaric, became subtenant at Alica Petrac, that means Petrac’s.

That authorities knew all the time where was heading now arrested tycoon, as they knew Matekovic’s moving, and they surely knew where Gotovina was, confirmed also my another text in Vjesnik from 26th July 2004.:Will Petrac after surrender go to hospital? (on croatian at this link):

Hrvoje Petrac, businessman after whom is Interpol’s APB because of accusation that he participated in kidnaping of retired general Vladimir Zagorac’s son, and to whom was prohibited entering in countries of EU, because there were suspicions that he helped runaway general Ante Gotovina, could be back to Croatia these days.

The source from judicial circles said for Vjesnik that about that case are informed in Supreme state attorney’s office and Ministry of police, and these days in those institutions are held consultations about the model of Petrac’s �surrender�…

Vjesnik’s source claims that persons close to Hrvoje Petrac about new diagnosis conntacted with authorized doctors in Zagreb’s hospitals Sestre milosrdnice (Sisters of mercy) and Sveti duh.

For Petrac the staying abroad was made worse, not only because of Interpol’s APB, but also because of decision of Union, which prohibited entering in countries members.

Perkovic called me on 12th July, when text didn’t come out, and merely informed me that the day before, when I called him and left him messages on answering machine, just ran out of battery in mobile phone, so he didn’t hear me.

He suggested to meet him in couple of days with one journalist (who would probably be guarantee that he would not make threats again or a witness that he didn’t make threats to me), because he needs time to remember things from 1992., and that all are KOS’s frauds of Branko Trazivuk, and Ivan Lasic…

Meanwhile in Globus was published text by Gordan Malic , in which case Djurekovic-Prates-Perkovic presented as conflict of German secret service with British.

Malic’s thesis was that German intelligence service put Perkovic under pressure, because it was known that Perkovic cooperated with British intelligence service in hunt on Gotovina.

Malic promote Josip and Sasa Perkovic as hunters on Gotovina, publishing parts of Turek’s presentation, concluding that two of them were also on Turek’s list of persons considered as cooperators of British intelligence service.

I thought that Turek was cleverer, but he put me also on the same list, and also Perkovic’s biggest public abnegator from lines of intelligence community, Dragutin Franciskovic.

Franciskovic even today claims that Susak and Perkovic made paralel commanding system in HV (Croatian army) which controlled, encouraged, non-processing… crimes and criminal acts in HV.

The results of Malic’s text are the following facts:

And here is the text from Vjesnik which Andrea Latinovic, without any explanation, refused to publish (she probably realised if she talks more, she only accumulates arguments against herself) , and which initiated that Franjo Maletic, director of Vjesnik dismiss me: Djurekovic’s murder and Friedrich Zimmermann

Despot in Vecernji list speculates that possible trial to Josip Perkovic for participating in murder of Stjepan Djurekovic might be in Croatia, because our country does not deliver its citizens (except to ICTY).

I doubt that our judicature could handle such burden.